Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Manny Ramirez will be back with the Dodgers in 2009, having exercised his option to return in 2010 for the fee of $20M, according to True Blue LA / Jon Heyman's twitter feed. Man, I feel uncomfortable citing twitter feeds; however TBLA is pretty sound and I trust Eric Stephen. Let's hope it's the late-2008 era Manny, and not the late-2009 era Manny; however, given it's a contract year, he's a proud guy and he's coming off an interrupted season, I think he'll be hungry to contribute.

So long as there aren't any major distractions around for the team, that is. Nah, we don't have any of those.

If Manny is Manny of '08, I agree with you wholeheartedly. If Manny is Manny of '09, I disagree with you passionately. I won't take their stats from '09 as an indication of how they'll do in '10. I'd rather see the third option.